According to this Media Bistro article, Mr. Popper’s Penguins is finally coming to the big screen and Jim Carrey is going to star in it. How cool is that?
Still, I’m a little bit confused. Perhaps the movie’s producers missed out on this post from last year. Surely, if they were aware of the fact that my friend and I used to spend hours in her basement emulating penguins, jumping from the ping-pong table to a chair to an improvised penguin slide, they would certainly want to bring me in to help with all those penguin stunts. Hollywood, I know everything there is to know about penguin stunts, well as long as those stunts are being performed by kids with overactive imaginations and not actual penguins. Who am I kidding? It will probably be all CGI anyway.
Well, perhaps I just have to be content that a new generation will discover the magic of Mr. Popper’s Penguins and parents everywhere will find the furniture in their basements shoved into odd configurations while their children inexplicably waddle all over the place.
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I’ve never heard of this book before. It sounds like it’s an old classic of sorts. I love the cover. I think I’ll look into this. Thanks.
I haven’t heard of this. I’ll have to check it out! Thanks!
whoa, a book about penguins?? Have to look into that!
June: Mr. Popper’s Penguins is and oldie, but a goodie. I always used to recommend it when I worked at the library and parents were looking for a chapter book that would work as a read-aloud for younger kids.
Heather: It’s a classic, a fun animal story. It was old when I first heard it way back in my childhood, but I still loved it.
Terry: It’s a fun (and not entirely realistic book) about a group of performing domesticated penguins.